Agricultural Extension and Rural Resource Management

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The Agricultural Extension and Rural Resource Management (AERRM) academic programme is designed to build the capacity of extension services through the provision of training and education that is relevant to the urgent issues facing agricultural and rural development. The programme offers a powerful combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills in agricultural extension, rural development, project management, agricultural production and farm economics and management. The programme follows a challenging teaching and learning approach as well as a fresh approach to the theory and practice of agricultural extension.
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Faith-based organisations (FBOs) play an important role in the health and well-being of urban and rural communities. Most communities, especially in rural areas, depend on FBOs’ health facilities, social networks or ...

This research explores the experiences that smallholder farmers have had when implementing the government’s tractor services provision (mechanisation) programme. The objective was to understand the programme’s contribution ...

The agricultural sector continues to stimulate economic growth for developing economies. This phenomenon relates to South Africa, where agriculture plays a crucial role in livelihood creation and economic growth in the ...

The importance of agricultural extension in small-scale farming systems of developing countries cannot be overemphasised. Extension organisations and their agents play crucial roles in transferring technologies to small-scale ...

Land reform is a political project which started after World War II in many countries around the world (Japan, Latin America and Africa). In South Africa it started with the advent of democracy in 1994. Experiences around ...

The lagging performance of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa over the past four decades has been attributed to the underlying agro-ecological and market access conditions. Regions with high agricultural potential are often ...

Ethiopia’s economy remains largely dependent on agriculture, where smallholder farming is the
main feature. Historically, a dominant smallholder economy came into existence during the
communist regime (1974–90), when the ...

The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate an Agricultural community and its system of
Natural Resource Management (NRM) in the post–Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP)
era in Zimbabwe. The study contributes ...

Women engaged in skills training courses were surveyed to determine if selected home
management and household attribute variables influenced women's attendance and successful
completion of training. The common (and wide) ...

Small-scale farming plays a significant role in rural people's lives. Small-scale farming
contributes to food production, household income and to the employment of people in rural
South Africa. They also face many ...

This study investigated student and teacher attitudes, factors affecting those attitudes and perceptions of students towards different aspects of agricultural education programme processes offered in secondary schools in ...

Despite progress made by Research and Development in the Mauritian sugar cane industry, a productivity gap averaging 1.5 to 2.5 tonnes of sugar per hectare has been constantly observed between large corporate planters and ...

This study evaluates the roles of agricultural extension relative to overcoming household food security and biodiversity conservation concerns in South Africa, with specific reference to the KwaZulu-Natal province. Food ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the needs of women's clubs to the services
offered by the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs
(KZNDAEA) at Hlanganani district. This study forms part ...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the potential for public rural schools to act as community
resource centres. Focus group discussions, observation and interviews were conducted with
educators, School Governing ...

The potential of solar systems to generate electricity to power computers in rural
schools has been realised in areas where grid electricity is inaccessible. While donors
may willingly donate computers to rural schools, ...

Botswana is considered an economic success story since the discovery of diamonds in the late 1960’s. While this mineral wealth allowed the government to invest in infrastructure which reduced poverty nationally, it still ...

Rabies is a zoonotic disease that is caused by a virus. Rabies infects domestic and wild animals, and is spread to people through close contact with infected saliva trough bites or scratches. The disease is present on ...

Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife (EKZNW) is a Schedule 3C public entity that
is legally mandated by way of the KwaZulu Natal Nature Conservation
Management Act 9 of 1997 to conserve indigenous biodiversity within the
province ...